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Dear Friends,<\/h2>\n


Every disciple of the Lord faces two basic doubts – filtered, however, through apparently endless permutations. The first is a doubt about God\u2019s goodness; the second is a doubt about his power.<\/p>\n

To the first, we\u2019re battered by whispers: \u201cCan you really trust God? How can you be sure he will come through? Does he actually care about you? Did God really <\/em>say\u2026?\u201d This temptation tends to envision God as a distant despot seeking power and control.<\/p>\n

To the second, we may doubt whether God is truly all-powerful. In other words, why does evil seem so dominant if God has the true power in the world? If the first doubt is about whether God will fulfill his promises, this second doubt is about whether God can<\/em> fulfill his promises.<\/p>\n

The month of May is dedicated especially to the Blessed Mother, and Mary, more than any other human person, illustrates how to face these temptations. In this regard, St. Luke describes two activities characteristic of Mary: she treasured and she pondered.<\/p>\n

Mary \u201ctreasured\u201d by allowing God to reconcile what at first seemed irreconcilable. She knew that \u201call things serve the Lord\u201d (Psalm 119:91), and therefore God is always working for our good (Romans 8:28 and John 5:17). She simply held the Lord\u2019s action in her heart, while giving him permission to act.<\/p>\n

And Mary \u201cpondered\u201d by inviting the Lord into every situation, every thought, and every feeling: \u201cHow can this be\u2026?\u201d In other words, she poured out her heart to God (Psalm 62:8), taking every thought captive for him (2 Corinthians 10:5) and sharing her inner world with the Lord.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This treasuring and pondering, the fruit of grace, enabled her to trust the Lord\u2019s goodness and his power; she believed that the promise made to her by the Lord would be fulfilled (Luke 1:45). It also enabled her response, \u201cLet it be done to me according to your word\u201d – in times of sorrow and in times of joy.<\/p>\n

As we honor Mary each May (which, not coincidentally, begins\u2014and often ends\u2014in the Easter season), her example poses a question to each of us. What situations, what thoughts, what feelings, what memories, what experiences might the Lord be inviting me to hold in my heart and ponder with him? What would it mean to bring them to him in the light and the power of his Resurrection, and to allow that Resurrection to claim my heart and my entire life?<\/p>\n

In that way, we, too, will perceive the meaning of the words, \u201cBlessed is the one who believes that the Lord\u2019s promise will be fulfilled,\u201d and our lives will become a surging Magnificat to the goodness and the power of God.<\/p>\n

God bless,<\/p>\n

Fr. John Pietropaoli
Two Priests and a Mic podcaster<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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